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Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-04-17 17:34:22 +0000
How much art can you take?
Art major Aliza Shvarts '08 wants to make a statement.
Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself "as often as possible" while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.
More here.
Posted by ConorClockwise on 2008-04-17 18:19:43 +0000
Ah, SIM majors.
Very similar stuff done by a Junior, Jena Goldberg, here at Massart, where she put semen in one series of 30 petri dishes, unfertilized eggs in another series, and then a fertilized egg in another series. Yes, the fertilized series grew and then got all brown. High art I guess.
Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-04-17 18:28:29 +0000
My freshman year at UNH I was befriended by an art student named Sarah who invited me back to her dorm room to show me her art work, which turned out to be a sizable series of "paintings" she'd made by sitting on hugh quality paper whilst menstruating.
I never spoke to her again.
Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2008-04-17 18:29:27 +0000
Or vile art.
Posted by ConorClockwise on 2008-04-17 18:30:14 +0000
Posted by mahatma chani on 2008-04-17 21:00:41 +0000
Let me guess... it was called "Period Piece."
This whole bullshit reminds me of the time I was at this film festival where the keynote speaker was this deranged Canadian artist who had made a film whose title escapes me. The title (in French) was whatever the slang expression Canadian mothers use to explain menarche to their daughters. Something innocent like "the budding of flowers in the spring." Anyway, this nutcase artist had collected a couple months of her menstual blood, shot a couple minutes of nature (flowers, trees, etc.), submerged said film in her blood, let it soak in, then redubbed the soundtrack with the screams of howler monkeys. Great times. Gave me a headache.
Posted by ConorClockwise on 2008-04-17 21:06:25 +0000
POTD
Posted by Miriam on 2008-04-17 21:08:52 +0000
I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.
Posted by MF DU on 2008-04-17 21:56:47 +0000
I hope tax dollars weren't used to fund any of this.
Posted by pchippy on 2008-04-18 01:25:56 +0000
I can't say that in general I'm a fan of woman-oriented THIS-IS-MY-BODY!!!-type art.
The one exception that springs to mind is a painting by Kiki Smith that I saw once: It was a large canvas, subdivided 3x3 into smaller squares, in each of which was an irregular-shaped blotch. After looking at it for a second, you realized that one blotch was shaped like a liver, one like a stomach, one like an intestine, one like a heart, two like lungs, one like a brain, and two like kidneys.
It was entitled "Nine Tenths of the Law."
It took me a couple more minutes of pondering before I understood: no uterus.
It was sort of clever.
Posted by ConorClockwise on 2008-04-18 03:03:42 +0000
:)
Posted by tendiamonds on 2008-04-18 03:08:03 +0000
Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-04-18 10:46:16 +0000
Oh. It's a hoax.
"So I repeatedly artificially inseminiated myself and induced miscarriages over a 9-month period... Just kidding! Ha ha!"
Um, sounds like someone thinks she's the next Tracey Emin. And... isn't.
Posted by pchippy on 2008-04-18 11:05:42 +0000
Yes, that'd be the one, I guess. Thanks, 10d.
My memory was playing me slightly false, it seems, in that there don't appear to be any intestines. And a few of the organs are harder for me to recognize than I remembered. What's that one on the center right, for instance?
Posted by tgl on 2008-04-19 17:00:31 +0000
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